Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... with a Poem by Austin Dobson - Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Austin Dobson, Arthur Rackham (illustrator) 1907 - William Heinemann, London - First Rackham Illustrated Edition A lovely example of the first edition of Alice to be magically illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with thirteen tipped-on coloured plates as well as black and white drawings throughout.   Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), English illustrator and water-colourist. One of the foremost and most productive of the Edwardian illustrators, with a preference for illustrating books of a mystical, magic or legendary background. Aided by advances in colour printing at the beginning of the 20th century, his imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening, whilst adding a delightfully humorous flourish to many of his illustrations, although he can descend into darker depths as seen for Wagner and Edgar Allan Poe.

First trade edition with the advertisement for ‘Rip Van Winkle’ to the verso of the half-title page, and one for 'The Children & The Pictures' by Pamela Tennant on the last page.

References: House, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 424. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 327. Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 77.

Large octavo (book size 21.1x16.3cm), pp. xi [1] 162 [2]. In publisher’s light green cloth, spine lettered and illustrated in dark green, upper board lettered in dark green with gilt vignettes of the Griffin and the Mock Turtle, rear board with Heinemann’s logo in dark green, cream coloured endpapers illustrated in light green, top edge tinted green.   Condition: Near fine, minro toning to spine, faint foxing to fore-edge.   Ref: 112216   Price: HK$ 8,000